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Cell transplant may restore lost sight Statins reduce incidence of nuclear cataract Drugs firm blocks cheap blindness cure New UK prescribing optometrists qualify Corneal infections and contact lens wear Bionic eye may help reverse blindness Dyslexia slows driver's reactions Sounds change the way people see Fetal tissue graft restores lost sight Drug-delivering contact lenses revealed Lack of sleep linked to eye cells Amoeba warning to contact lens wearers Soft gel focussing implant for cataract surgery? New surgical treatment for Presbyopia? New treatment for Retinal Degeneration? New treatment for Retinitis Pagmentosa? (Dog trial) Under correcting myopia? Good or Bad. Monosodium Glutamate producing blindness? Moths have colour night vision New treatment for retinal diseases? UK NHS fails to treat ARMD patients. New retinal light receptor cells found? Severed optic nerves can be made to grow again A focussing lens implant for cataract patients One shot of genes might be enough to cure some forms of blindness Bullets from a tiny plasma gun can unclog the blocked veins that threaten eyesight Liquid crystal cure for presbyopia? Future cure for Leber's congenital amaurosis? UK Optometrists to prescribe therapeutic drugs? British optometrist first with telemedicine referral Policy statement by GOC on the re-use of diagnostic contact lenses New test strip for allergic conjuctivitis Minister bans optometrist's use of multi-use diagnostic trial contact lenses. New ARMD treatment. Photodynamic therapy using Visudyne and a non-destructive laser has been shown to have encouraging results with wet type ARMD. NHS Eye-Exams for Pensioners Restored Vision Direct the Mail Direct Contact Lens Company gets the thumbs down and has to pay up. Orthokeratology Society There is a recently formed British Ortho K Society (BOKS) which has the aim of propagating a 'new' scientific approach to ortho k. Recently the society invited John Mountford and Tony Phillips to lecture and provide clinical teaching sessions. Following these sessions a number of our members have purchased ortho k fitting sets and are or will be integrating ortho k into practice. If anyone is interested in membership please contact Tel 01203-444566 Fax 01203-444118 Membership will entitle you to John Mountford's ortho k notes (bound) and also free software that enables you to calculate initial lens parameters once apical radius and eccentricity are known. Not forgetting lively meetings and discussions with like-minded colleagues. As far as practicing CL practitioners are concerned we currently have at least 5 members. As a society we also encourage our members to pool results together so that any research can be published. Information supplied by Trusit Dave. BBC drops "In Touch" handbook. The "In Touch Handbook", the best ( and only) resource guide for services to the visually impaired has ceased research for updating future editions due to the BBC pulling the plug. The latest edition is now available on the Internet. The Web site address is listed on the Chapter's Useful Web Sites page. |
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